Mamoun Fandy is senior fellow for Gulf security and director of the Middle East programme at the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) in London. Before joining IISS he previously served as Senior Fellow of Arab and Middle East Politics at the James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy at Rice University. Prior to that he was a Senior Fellow at the United States Institute of Peace in...
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JALAWLA, Iraq -- Kurdish leaders have expanded their authority over a roughly 300-mile-long swath of territory beyond the borders of their autonomous region in northern Iraq, stationing thousands of soldiers in ethnically...